Journal
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 138, Issue 668, Pages 1914-1922Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1917
Keywords
Coriolis force; inertial motion; particle dynamics; gravitational force; accelerometer; exact solutions
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- National Science Foundation [0621134, 1031002]
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0621134, 1031002] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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By starting with a free particle and successively adding constraints, it is shown that the free motion of a particle constrained to the Earth's surface is inertial, despite statements in the literature to the contrary, and that an observer on this particle would not measure a force tangent to the Earth's surface. However, if the observer extended his measurements to include the direction normal to the Earth's surface then he would detect an oscillating force. Copyright (c) 2012 Royal Meteorological Society
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